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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Inserting semicolon at the end of a line Post 302836319 by Priya Amaresh on Wednesday 24th of July 2013 02:47:30 AM
Old 07-24-2013
Code:
awk '{$2=";"}' test.csv

This not working..

Am using ksh shell..

---------- Post updated at 01:47 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:44 AM ----------

Code:
sed 's/$/;/g' filename

This works very fine.. Thanks
 

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